The goal for net zero CO2 emissions by 2050 as laid out by the 2015 Paris agreement paired with new international economic and political incentives for climate mitigation has positioned carbon capture and storage (CCS) as an emerging geoscience field. Predicting how rocks, pores, and fluids are distributed and how they change in the subsurface through time are critical skillsets for evaluating both oil and gas prospects and CCS reservoir-seal pairs. While CCS projects face unique technical and political challenges, methods and workflows in subsurface characterization and modeling can be useful and transferable from oil and gas. This workshop aims to simultaneously highlight skillsets and workflows from industry geoscience and emphasize the unique technical and economic challenges faced by large-scale CCS.
Highlight transferability in reservoir characterization and modelling to CCS
Emphasize unique challenges to CCS and growth areas for industry geoscientists
Identify critical training areas for university curriculum development
Network with professionals and academics working on CCS activities
Generate list of best practices related subsurface characterization and modeling for CCS
Program
The first day will frame the evolving role of applied geoscience within the energy transition and highlight the motivations and monetization strategies behind the growing CCS field. Expert lecturers will discuss specific policies within Europe and the US and their effectiveness in incentivizing CCS projects. Participants will learn about actual CCS case studies from industry representatives including the technical challenges and the role of the geoscientist. The day will close with an overview of subsurface characterization and modeling to frame the technical portion of the workshop over the following two days.
The second and third days will focus on the reservoir and seal aspects of the subsurface and will include presentations, discussions, and hands-on activities designed to demonstrate the link between facies analysis and porosity-permeability relationships and how these are represented in wireline logs and ultimately used to populate geologic models. Best practices in addressing structural and stratigraphic traps and additional risks unique to CCS will be discussed. A discussion and summary of the key takeaways from the workshop's technical portion will close the third and last day. The group will produce a series of consensus-based best practices for subsurface characterization and modeling in CCS.
Day 1: Framing the Problem – Motivation and Incentives
Morning: Overview of workshop schedule and objectives Motivation and incentives for CCS Energy transition and economic models CCS policies and opportunities in Europe and North America
Afternoon: Overview of subsurface characterization and modeling for CCS vs. O&G Current impact of CCS – What is needed to operate at scale? Opportunities for Geoscientists Current CCS Projects/Case Studies
Day 2: Subsurface Storage – Reservoirs and Traps
Morning: Petrophysical considerations when working with supercritical CO2 vs. O&G Sensitivity of depositional environments and sequence stratigraphy in geologic models for CCS Characterization and modeling for storage in depleted oil and gas reservoirs vs. saline aquifers
Afternoon: Poster session and case studies/technical talks
Day 3: Long-term containment, seals, and risks
Morning: Top seals – sedimentology, capillary pressure, plume height Top seals – evaluation and prediction
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